What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital?


I well remember in the ‘80s when we were amazed and thrilled by CD.
Wow, no more pops and clicks and all the physical benefits.
Seems so many abandoned vinyl.
But now, with so much convenience, available content and high SQ seems even dedicated vinylholics have again abandoned vinyl and embraced digital. However, there is clearly a new resurgence in analog.
But I look at, for example, whitecamaro’s “List of amplifiers...” thread and no one seems interested in analog!
To me, it seems strange when auditioning “$100Kish gear, that vinyl doesn’t enter the picture or conversation.
mglik

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Yea surfmuz, super lucky. Had a big Pink Floyd phase...probably have 50 albums...some bootlegs...there's a term you don’t hear much anymore. The one I wish I’d kept was Music From The Body, (Waters and Geesin) Capitol, green and yellow label. Got the digital remaster...weak.
Never owned a CD player.  Well, other than the ones that came with the cars.  Bought about 20 CDs in my life to play in our cars.  For the home stereo, have only ever had vinyl for playback.  Well, and the boob toob.  Own about 1200 albums, about half of which were bought in the mid 90's for between 25 cents and 2 or 3 dollars at The Record Exchange in Eugene, OR, where so many poor blighters nearly gave their vinyl away in trade for "perfect sound forever CDs"...poor misguided blighters, I feel sorry for every one of them.

A couple examples: Pink Floyd Pink Floyd Tower Records: $1.  Willie The Lion Smith Live at Blues Alley Halcyon: $2  Big Mama Thornton In Europe Arhoolie: $0.50.  Learned to leave the price stickers on in order to avoid damage to the covers by trying to remove them.  It's fun now to see these crazy low prices on these amazing albums!

Yes, I feel very sorry for those folks.